e-condom: Electronic Reproductive Health Solutions?

Intelligent devices designed to help mankind in decision-making and support has been a counter intuitive subject for long in self-care and in general healthcare. We all know how much our lives have been improved by technology and how much the healthcare industry has been boosted by science and technology.

Designing is not a definitive answer to questions of health and wellness, but rather the scientific integrations of the state-of-the-art designs with human behavior.

My clinical practice in the area of reproductive health and knowledge in human sexual behavior doesn’t not seem to blend clearly on how to address unwanted pregnancies; is it the lack of efficaciousness of contraception methods or the lack of alertness when the impending technology is about to “go burst ”

Would I not be happy to know when my food stock will not be usable so I can plan what to cook out of my fridge? Yes, and the technology is already out there! You can even tell on how long a given perishable product will last in your stock, amount of calorie on our food item and of recent science being engineered..........

MobileHealth: Healthcare Getting More Portable for Developing World?

HealthApps and
 hospital workflow
improvements 

Much that the mobile phone industry has caught attention of many  investors to think of  the developing world as a potential market,  the health sector sees this as a golden bullet to healthcare solutions especially in developing world. Mobile phone apps that could help in clinical decision support, data collection and sharing or  mobile-phone-sized and technology compatible gadgets that could be carried and synched on GSM, CDMA technologies widely available now in these countries are a promising solution.

A recent study has shown that there will be 1.4 billion people with smartphones worldwide by 2015, and 500 million of them will be using mobile health applications, (research2guidance).  Smartphones will be the catalyst to bring mobile healthcare (R2G).  Though the huge numbers of smart-phones are  in developed world, as compared to the emerging market, the solutions that the same applications can play are immense in the later especially in the rate at which the technology is now used and widely adopted. 

Its to my view that the right market for healthcare investments in Africa should target this market. While most of the hospital equipments have been huge, expensive and almost imposible to deploy newer innovations like Mobisante's Smartphone-based ultrasound gives a promise to healthcare systems in developing world. 

This gadget, a size of a mobile phone project to  cost USD 5,000-10,000 at its initial price is awaiting regulatory approvals is likely to be affordable to remote hospitals and would save more lives.

Healthcare solutions models that will be cheap to acquire, easy to deploy, aren't energy intensive or can exploit rapidly expanding mobile phone technologies offer an easy and clear way to healthcare delivery and access.

Its a matter of time before systems geared into exploiting this model will be deployed in Africa to solve our impending problems.